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This is my first fanfiction ever and I'm very new to this. I've read many fanfictions and I thought I should start my own and see what other people think and I would like to know what you think of this story in the reviews.

I don't own YuGiOh!, this is just a story that I thought of for my first fanfiction story, but I'll make sure that character's personality and appearance are canon and just to let you know that there will be some characters that are not canon to the series.

Just to let you know which characters are canon and non-canon. To tell which characters are which, the characters that have their appearance described are non-canon characters except the one at the start of the story for obvious reasons, the ones that have no description are characters that are from the series, but if you are a YuGiOh! fan you should be able to tell.

Without further to do It's time to duel!

Chapter 1: The Arrival of Darkness

In a dark shadowy, misty world stood a senior high school boy who was 153 cm tall. Hanging from his neck was a chain like necklace that had a golden upside-down pyramid with an eye in the centre and with him was a spirit of an ancient Pharaoh who resides in the pyramid. They are both wearing a blue long sleeved jacket with a closed buckled collar and blue pants, with black shoes and shirt and with extremely extravagant hair that features multiple layers with long blond crooked, pointy locks for a fringe; the rest features a set of five large spikes and two smaller spikes coloured black with a magenta sheen along the edges and purple eyes. The only differences were that the spirit's eyes were sharper than the boy's eyes and he is not wearing the pyramid necklace. Their names were none other than Yugi Muto and The Pharaoh.

Both Yugi and the Pharaoh walked to see where they were, but couldn't see anything but endless dark mist. Gradually some of the dark mist cleared revealing a crumbled and destroyed city.

What is this place? Wait isn't this…." said Yugi

"Domino City" said the Pharaoh with a shocked face.

Yugi was shocked as well to see that Domino City was completely rubble, only for some buildings still standing could it be recognised to be Domino City. As Yugi was still shocked not knowing what had happened he realised that all the citizens were gone.

"What happened . . . where is everyone?" said Yugi.

They both felt a sudden chill down their spines, like a dark cold presence was right behind them. As they both turned around they saw a black hooded figure wearing a dark long sleeved robe that reached down to his dark boots, with dark gloves and hood. It was too dark to see under the hood so the face could not be seen. Attached to the figures arm was a type of duel disk similar to Yugi's duel disk, but the disk was a rectangular shape with spikes pointing out from the sides and it was dark coloured.

Both Yugi and the Pharaoh felt unsettled by this unknown figure as it kept looking at them with not a word. Until Yugi spoke.

"Who are you?"

"The existence of your demise. . . soon you and the Pharaoh will fall, and the power will be mine" it laughed sinisterly.

As the dark figure continued laughing, a large dark shadow shaped like a dragon with its devil like wings and red burning eyes made a terrifying roar that made the buildings and the ground shake so intensely that it made Yugi and Pharaoh fall to the ground. Before they could get back up, the monster immediately fired a dark energy beam that headed straight for them as they screamed.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"

When Yugi thought he was done for he realised that he was in his room.

"It was . . . it was just a bad dream"

"I don't think it was a dream if we both had the same one" said a familiar voice.

Yugi turned his to see the Pharaoh in a ghost like form standing right beside his bed.

"Are you saying it wasn't a dream?" said Yugi

"I don't know what it was, but I don't think that was the end"

The next day Yugi was walking to school with Tea and she noticed Yugi seemed concerned about something.

"Hey Yugi what's wrong?" asked Tea with a worried look.

"Oh It's just I had a bad dream"

"What was this dream about?" asked Tea.

Yugi explained to Tea about his dream and what the Pharaoh was worried about and Tea was a little bit spooked by the dream and concerned for the Pharaoh.

"Gosh that sounds really creepy, is the Pharaoh alright?"

"He's okay it's just . . . it seems to trouble him and I can't stop thinking about the dream myself, it felt so real"

"You shouldn't be so concerned about it, tomorrow's going to be the weekend so we could invite all our friends to hang out for the day, it could keep you distracted from those nightmares"

"That sounds like an excellent idea, I could use a distraction"

However Yugi was thinking ("But I wonder if the Pharaoh will be okay after what happened last night?")

Inside the millennium puzzle was a labyrinth of multiple stairs and doors everywhere from top to bottom and sides, and in the middle the Pharaoh was seen standing, thinking about the nightmare.

"This was more than a nightmare, I could feel the darkness… the power felt so familiar to the shadow realm, but far greater than anything that me and Yugi had ever encountered before.

"I fear that this isn't the end of what is going to happen, and I hope I'm wrong"

As Yugi and Tea made it to school they spotted Tristan and Bakura.

"Tristan, Bakura" called out Tea, grabbing the attention of the two boys, as she and Yugi walked up to them.

"Hey Tristan, Hey Bakura" said Yugi.

"Hey" Tristan greeted back to his friends.

As Bakura was going to greet Yugi and Tea he immediately hid behind them as he spotted the girls that always follow him and try to win his affection all the time.

"Hey where's Bakura?" said one girl in the group "He was here a moment ago" said the other girl, as they walked off to look for him. Bakura sighed with relief.

"It's the accent gets them every time" Tristan smirked, finding it funny.

"I can't catch a break with them" sighed Bakura.

"It can't be that bad" said Yugi.

"Yeah, I'm sure Joey would be jealous of the attention" said Tristan

"Speaking of Joey where is he?" asked Tea

"Probably running late as usual" answered Tristan

"He better be here or he's going to be in trouble like last time" said Bakura

As the school bell rung, the four friends and the rest of the students walked into their classes.

As the coach was closing the school gate, he could hear someone shouting.

"STOP"

As he turned around to see a blonde haired male riding his bicycle coming in fast as it was heading straight towards him, as the blonde shouted.

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He screaming as they where about to crash into the each other, but luckily the coach dodged the incoming bike, as he said angrily,

"Watch where you're going Wheeler!"

The blonde parked his bike and rushed into class.

As he opened the door quickly it made a loud noise that got the attention of the class. Some were standing and some were sitting at their desks having their own conversations before the late arriving teen got their attention. Luckily class hadn't started yet, as the teacher was not there, so the teen stood panting from exhaustion and trying to catch his breath and the students resumed their conversations.

"Boy, you're lucky that the teacher is running late" said a familiar voice.

As the blonde looked up to see that it was Tristan and noticed Tea, Bakura and Yugi.

"Next time get an alarm clock so you don't run late" said Tea with an annoyed tone.

"I was busy building my deck with some new cards I got" said Joey

"New cards?" questioned Yugi

"Yeah. Wanna see?" asked Joey

Then all of a sudden the teacher came in and said.

"All right class please return to your seats"

The class went to their seats and the teacher said.

"Sorry I was late everyone, I had to show a new transfer student around the school"

As he said that the new student opened the door and walked in. He stood in front of the class. He had very dark, neat and tidy hair but in a very cool style. His eyes were dark purple, and looked quite attractive to the girls. He was about 169 cm tall and seemed to be 16 years old, his body was skinny and looked quite fit and he wore the Domino High-School uniform.

"Class this is our new student, can you introduce yourself to the class please?" asked the teacher. The new student said.

"Hello my name is Kura Oni Akuryo" and he wrote his name on the board and turned and lighty bowed and stood up straight with an emotionless look saying.

"I hope we all get along" and he moved to his seat at the back of the room next to the window. All the girls in the class, except Tea, started whispering about how handsome or cute he was, and the teacher told them to be quiet as they began the lesson.

After class everyone went out to lunch. Yugi and his friends where outside standing in a group while having their lunch and talking about going out on Saturday to hang out.

"That sounds like an excellent idea" Bakura said smiling at Tea's idea.

"Mm… I'll definitely be there" said Joey with food in his mouth.

"Count me in!" said Tristan.

"Great. We'll meet at Domino City Plaza 9:00 clock AM" said Yugi

"Yeah we'll be there and we could even have a duel as well" said Joey

"Then it's settled then" said Tea

As the five friends where continuing their conversation, Joey said.

"Oh oh. Trouble!"

Yugi and the other friends looked up at Joey in confusion as he started running so they followed him.

The new transfer student, Kura, was seen being pushed against a wall and was cornered by three bullies that were bigger, taller and tougher looking. The leader of the group said

"You sure have the attention of all the girls at school, even my girlfriend was looking at you in a way she never looked at me and now she dumped me all because of you!" He lifted Kura up and pushed him up against the wall ready to beat him up and Kura just looked at the bully with a blank stare.

"What's the matter pipsqueak? Too scared to say anything?" The bully said mockingly as the other two behind him started giggling.

"Probably because he has nothing to say to you"

The bullies turned to see Joey.

"What do you want Wheeler?" said the leader of the gang

"Get lost!" "Yeah take a hike!" said the second and third bully.

"Not until you let him go" demanded Joey.

As Yugi, Tea, Bakura and Tristan backed Joey up Tea said to the bullies.

"You let him go right know or we'll tell the principal about this" and made a cross face.

As the bullies knew they were outnumbered they decided to let Kura go and walked away.

"You're lucky that your buddies are here to save you, but you won't be lucky next time" said the leader before he and his gang walked away.

"Hey Kura are you okay?" Joey said as he reached out his arm.

"Yes I'm alright, thank you" and he grabbed Joey's hand as he was pulled off the ground.

"If those creeps give you anymore trouble you could come to us" said Joey.

"Thank you, but I think I'll be alright now" as Kura smiled at them and walked away.

The group just looked at him and everything else resumed normally.

It was late at night and the bullies were seen in an alleyway planning their revenge.

"Soon Kura and his buddies will pay for messing with us!" the leader said. He turned to the sound of footsteps.

They could see someone walking up to them wearing dark coloured boots and gloves, a long sleeve robe with a dark hood that reached all the way to his boots.

"Who are you?" asked the leader

But there was no reply as a dark ora started emitting out of the stranger's body as a dark demonic dragon with bright burning eyes emitted out as it growled. The bullies looked in fear as the creature surrounded them as they couldn't be seen, as you can hear there screams.

Author notes

So what do you think? Please tell me what you think and if there needs to be any writing improvements or anything else, you can tell me in the reviews.

I have to admit this was hard work and it took quite long time for me to finish.

Also when you send your reviews in please no rudeness, swearing or harsh criticism, because I worked really hard on this so nothing harsh only positive or advice that can help me to improve.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it, and get ready for Chapter 2 because soon it'll be time to duel! If you know what I mean by duel.